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Author:

Downing, Eric, author.

Title:

The chain of things : divinatory magic and the practice of reading in German literature and thought, 1850-1940 / Eric Downing.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiii, 349 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Books and reading--Germany--History--19th century.
Books and reading--Germany--History--20th century.
Divination in literature.
Magic in literature.
Aesthetics, German--19th century.
Aesthetics, German--20th century.
Aesthetics, German.
Books and reading.
Divination in literature.
German literature.
Magic in literature.
Germany.
1800-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Painting magic in Keller's Green Henry -- Speaking magic in Fontane's The Stechlin -- Reading magic in Walter Benjamin.

Summary:

"Shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers, including writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought

ISBN:

1501715909
9781501715907
1501715917
9781501715914

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1008767607

LCCN:

2017060430

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)